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Life and success are about what you choose to believe.

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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It's a complicated story [hoe I got into music ]. I actually wrote a book about it, titled For Sue.
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You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player
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It's very unlikely you're a genius, but, if you're ready to work at it hard and you want to listen to music all the time and you want to learn about it and you want to be around the people who do it, you'll find your own way.
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Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.
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No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.
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Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.
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The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.
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I think that's important to remember - That we're blessed to even be able to attempt to do this [music].
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I wasn't expecting [the Monk competition] would necessarily do that. So I just did what I did and some good things continued to happen and some doors continued to open and that kind of led me into the different associations that I developed in my 30s and some records that I've made on ArtistShare over the last 10 years or so.
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The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
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Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students. That's kind of what it is.
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I learned some classical music history, which I had done quite a bit at of Performing Arts. But I got some more with a great teacher named David Noon, who I've been in contact with quite a bit in recent years.
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Larry [ Laurenzano] said to me one day near the end of junior high, Jon, are you Jewish? I said, No. And he said, Well neither am I. I'm not sure of Caesar DiMauro, but he teaches at the JCC and I got you a scholarship there.
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Walk down Forest Ave to Joey's Pizza like we used to do after performances, which doesn't exist anymore. We had a sense of community [in the school band].
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[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.
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I never really had a classical saxophone set-up. I just had a middle of the road set up.
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Earlier that year [1996], Ronnie Scott came to Visiones when I was playing with Maria and he hired me to come and play in his club in London, which I was gratified by. That allowed me to make some more connections.
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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.
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Love is the answer for the team's success.
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I definitely had some moments, where, Wow, these were some hard chords on some gig.
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